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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A political movement originating in the United States in the 1960s, especially among college students, marked by advocacy of radical changes in government, politics, and society.
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Examples
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And as Dick says, the lavender shirt mob, the, what he calls the New Left, the homos and queers.
Slate Magazine 2009
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And as Dick says, the lavender shirt mob, the, what he calls the New Left, the homos and queers.
Slate Magazine 2009
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South America and the Rise of the New Left, which is being released in paperback by Palgrave in November.
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Socialism had been discredited; modern bourgeois society was infected with "libertine tendencies"; the New Left was the carrier of "nihilism."
An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual Draper, Theodore H. 1995
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The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.
Disinformation majestic 2010
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In short, those features shared by the Tea Party and the New Left are the staple elements of all forms of political radicalism.
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online Lee Harris 2010
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Those features shared by the Tea Party and the New Left are the staple elements of all forms of political radicalism.
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online Lee Harris 2010
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A distinguishing feature of the New Left was a tendency to view the
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The New Left was a political reaction against the acceptance of capitalism by the major established parties.
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Another distinguishing feature of the New Left was a much greater emphasis on manifestations of cultural rebellion against mainstream society, particularly borrowing from the black nationalism.
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